Creating Games: A GameContext Approach GCA

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Creating GamesA Game-Context Approach (GCA)

• Peter Baggetta

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Tell me, I forget.Show me, I understand.Involve
me, I remember.

• Game-Context Approach (GCA)
• - Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) - UK
• - Tactical-Decision Learning Model - France
• - Game Sense Australia/NZ
• - Tactical Approach to Teaching Games US
• Constructivist Learning-Centered Approach

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Constructivist Approach

• Active
• Experiential
• Interactive
• Build/Construct
• Prior Knowledge
• Restructuring
• Socially Constructed

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GCA Model

• Games Design
• Role of the Coach
• Key Elements Game Form
• Game Appreciation Tactical Awareness
• Decision-Making

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Game Form - Representation

• Full Game
• Modified Games
• Developmental Level

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Game Appreciation - Exaggeration

• Role of Rules
• Tactical Problem
• Shape
• Constraints
• How to Win
• Action Rules/Skills

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Tactical Awareness

• Principles of Play
• Problem-solving
• Action Rules
• Situated
• Recognition

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Decision Making

• Players learn to make good decisions by
• practicing the elements of DM
• What to Do?
• Selective attention Recognize relevant
  actions/cues
• Anticipate responses by opponents
• Predict possible outcomes
• How to Do It?
• Selection of an appropriate response/skill
  critical

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Development of the Game

• Start with the tactical problem/concept
  (Principle of Play) you want the players to
  solve/understand
• Then ask
• What decisions/movements/strategies (Action
  Rules) do the players need to make/understand to
  successfully solve the problem/understand the
  concept?
• What skills must the players perform in order to
  successfully execute the Action Rules?
• Keep it simple focus on one to two Action Rules
  and two to three skills

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Game Conditions

• Once you have answered the questions then develop
  the game
• Rules and Routines
• How many players per team?
• Space of the playing area?
• Modified equipment?
• Scoring?
• Restart/Change of Possession?
• Defense?
• Appropriate sport behavior

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Game Performance Construction

• Problem
• Results of Actions
• Reflect on Performance
• Search for Better Possible Solutions

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GCA Design
PROBLEM
GAME
TACTICAL COMPLEXITY
OBSERVE ANALYSIS
TIS
REFLECTION
If Needed
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Technical Improvement Sessions (TIS)

• When should we introduce technique/work on
  skills?

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Rugby

• Rugby belongs to a category of team games called
  Territorial, Invasion or Go To-Go Thru Games
• Other games in this category include
• Basketball
• Field/Ice Hockey
• Football
• Lacrosse
• Soccer
• Team Handball
• Water Polo
• Ultimate Frisbee

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Characteristics of Team Games

• Rapport of Strength
• Individual and Collective Strategies
• Motor Skills

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Main Intention of Game

• Q. What is the main intention of all
  Territorial/Invasion/Go To Go Thru Games?

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Principles of Play

• Q. What are three core principles needed in
  order to score? - to prevent a score?
• Should be common to all
• invasion/territorial/go to-go thru
• games

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Action Rules(Decisions/Movements/Strategies)

• In your groups come up with
• two possible Action Rules for an Attack
  (Scoring) Principle
• AND
• two possible Action Rules for a Defense
  (Preventing Scoring) Principle

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Skills

• In your groups come up with
• two skills needed to successfully execute the
  Action Rules for an Attack (Scoring) Principle
• AND
• two skills needed to successfully execute the
  Action Rules for a Defense (Preventing Scoring)
  Principle

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Game Conditions

• In your groups come up with the Game Conditions
  for a game for the either the Attack Principle or
  the Defense Principle
• Game should help players create
  understanding/solve the problem of the targeted
  Principle of Play (Tactical Problem/Concept)
• Game conditions should manipulate/exaggerate the
  game so that players have to apply the Action
  Rules

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Order Out of Chaos

• Role of the coach is help players construct their
  understanding of how to optimally manage disorder
  by getting players to solve problems related to
  the characteristics and configurations of the
  game by themselves